9/11 Memorial

September 18th, 2011 | Travel

Having completed the harvest (or at least most of it), I had to make a quick dash accross the Atlantic for a meeting and tasting with our U.S. importer. Of course, under normal circumstances, Angela and I would travel together, but naturally one of us had to stay behind to take care of the wine making, and unfortunately Angela drew the short straw. She did however compensate by giving me a shopping list, to take advantage of any spare moment that I may have had during my short stay in the Big Apple!

The morning after my arrival I woke up in the early hours as my body clock attempted to adjust, and so decided to take a trip downtown to the site of the World Trade Centre. In the year and a half since our last visit the progress was quite astounding with the new Tower One already dominating the lower Manhattan skyline. Only two days before, on Sunday 11th September 2011, the site had been the centre of attention as the world remembered those who had tragically lost their lives exactly ten years earlier. The focal point of the site is now the 9/11 memorial itself, opened in an emotional ceremony – two huge square cascading waterfalls built within the footprints of the original twin towers. Access to the memorial is currently restricted to ticket holders only, and had been fully subscribed for months in advance – it seemed that I would have little chance of gaining entry. I was wrong……

By pure chance, being in the right place at the right time, I was gifted an entry ticket and soon found myself standing on hallowed ground. The two huge pools are spectacular and are bordered with the names of every person that died on 9/11 carved into beautiful bronze panels. In my own opinion the memorial is a very fitting tribute, a very sombre place, but still well worth a visit the next time you find yourself in NYC.

Having completed the harvest (or at least most of it), I had to make a quick dash accross the Atlantic for a meeting and tasting with our U.S. importer. Of course, under normal circumstances, Angela and I would travel together, but naturally one of us had to stay behind to take care of the wine making, and unfortunately Angela drew the short straw. She did however compensate by giving me a shopping list, to take advantage of any spare moment that I may have had during my short stay in the Big Apple!

The morning after my arrival I woke up in the early hours as my body clock attempted to adjust, and so decided to take a trip downtown to the site of the World Trade Centre. In the year and a half since our last visit the progress was quite astounding with the new Tower One already dominating the lower Manhattan skyline. Only two days before, on Sunday 11th September 2011, the site had been the centre of attention as the world remembered those who had tragically lost their lives exactly ten years earlier. The focal point of the site is now the 9/11 memorial itself, opened in an emotional ceremony – two huge square cascading waterfalls built within the footprints of the original twin towers. Access to the memorial was restricted to ticket holders only, and had been fully subscribed for months in advance – it seemed that I would have little chance of gaining entry. I was wrong……

By pure chance, being in the right place at the right time, I was gifted an entry ticket and soon found myself standing on hallowed ground. The two huge pools are spectacular and are bordered with the names of every person that died on 9/11 carved into beautiful bronze. In my own opinion the memorial is a very fitting tribute, a very sombre place, but still well worth a visit the next time you find yourself in NYC.

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